posted at 10:01 am on March 23, 2013 by Ed Morrissey

Did you see something streaking through the evening sky Friday night? Apparently, you weren’t alone.

Social media sites were buzzing with reports of a brief but bright flash of light that streaked across the sky along the East Coast.

One of our viewers, Kim Fox, from Thurmont, Md., sent us video from her home security camera that appears to show something streaking through the sky. The video is timestamped on 3/22/2013 at 7:53 p.m. Take a look and see the video for yourself. …

Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environmental Office said the flash appears to be “a single meteor event.” He said it “looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports.”

“Judging from the brightness, we’re dealing with something as bright as the full moon,” Cooke said. “The thing is probably a yard across. We basically have (had) a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast.”

Vice President Biden will headline a pair of Democratic fundraisers this spring in crucial primary states, a scheduling decision likely to feed speculation that he is considering a White House bid.

The vice president will headline the Michigan Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Detroit this April, the Associated Press reported Friday. The wire service also reported that Biden will go to Columbia, S.C., in May for that state’s Democratic Party dinner.

South Carolina and Michigan are both among the early voting states that typically shape the Democratic Party’s nominating process for the presidency.

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Many report that it burned with a very green to blue color. That implies a lot of copper, probably, which could make this a piece of space junk that reentered. (There’s a lot of it up there) Many meteors have a large iron content, and you won’t get any green to blue color out of that.

I saw something like that once in the Arizona desert, the most brilliant meteoric display I have ever seen, streaking across the sky, breaking up and burning in various brilliant hues. Found out later it was something that had come up from Vandenburg and came back down. Wasn’t talked about much, but not a surprise since nothing that goes on at Vandenburg is talked about much.

I saw it here in Pennsylvania. I thought it might be a firecracker at first but then saw the buzz on the internet and realized what I had seen. It was green and seemed close by. Given our close proximation to the state of Delaware, I hope it bodes well for a Biden candidacy for 2016. I would like nothing better than to see him be the Dem nominee.

He’ll run because it is his last hurrah, and it gives him a last pile of money to hand out to cronies and he can have fun traveling the country on his own ‘other people’s money’ while escaping the burdensome drudgery of the VP work he’s had to do these last 6 years.

Skyfalling? Hell freezing over? All because the Senate finally did their job………well kind of.

Read the angst in the report below. It’s pathetic.

WASHINGTON — After a grueling, all-night debate that ended close to 5 a.m., the Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending——NO THE GROWTH IN SPENDING DOOFUS—- gingerly and leave the government still deeply in the debt a decade from now.

The 50-49 vote sets up contentious — and potentially fruitless — negotiations with the Republican-dominated House in April to reconcile two vastly different plans for dealing with the nation’s economic and budgetary problems. No Republicans voted for the Senate plan on Saturday, and four Democrats — Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana — also opposed it. All four are Red State Democrats up for re-election in 2014.

The House plan ostensibly brings the government’s taxes and spending into balance by 2023 with cuts to domestic spending—-NO AGAIN DOOF, it’s cuts in the GROWTH of spending—–even below the automatic “sequestration” levels now roiling federal programs, and it orders significant changes to Medicare and the tax code.

The Senate plan, in contrast, includes $100 billion in upfront infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy and calls for special fast-track rules to overhaul the tax code and raise $975 billion over 10 years through legislation that could not be filibustered. Even with that tax increase and prescribed spending cuts, the Senate plan would leave the government with a $566 billion deficit in 10 years, and $5.2 trillion in additional debt over that time.

He’ll run because it is his last hurrah, and it gives him a last pile of money to hand out to cronies and he can have fun traveling the country on his own ‘other people’s money’ while escaping the burdensome drudgery of the VP work he’s had to do these last 6 years.

But the sun will set on Biden’s career by late Spring in 2016.

Dusty on March 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM

He beat the robot Paul Ryan.

Don’t bet the farm that Biden couldn’t be President. Hook him up with a Governor Castro from Texas and it could be a wipeout against the likely nominee Jeb Bush.

I live in Maine and since Christmas I have seen two of these. They were very big, one at night and one in the morning on the way to work. the one in the morning was seen by people in Ma and also looked green. It was reported on a local Ma radio station but never made national news.